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Google Takeout [0] should let you download userdata from google - I've just exported my old Play Music library. [0] https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout

• strombofulous 6y ago
  You can only export albums and if you put all your images into one album and export that it will break
  • axaxs 6y ago
    That's not at all true. I just did this last month. Takeout doesn't even ask for an album...
    • mceachen 6y ago
      For very large Google Photo libraries, you may need to break your library into a series of albums. I had to do this for my wife before Takeout finally decided it could generate an archive instead of "oops! we couldn't make your archive! lol!".
• vetinari 6y ago
  You won't get back your original files, but more heavily compressed ones. Few months ago, I did an export, but also managed to find a harddrive with many of the originals, and the sizes were wildly different.
  • mceachen 6y ago
    Your metadata will also be scrambled or stripped as well. GPS almost certainly will be missing. I had a number of images where they _changed the captured-at times in the metadata_ (thanks?) to obviously-incorrect times (and not just a timezone-offset error): like, a sunset shot that they changed to 3am, and retained the timezone offset.